Improvement in tag-fasteners



aited States HENRY FISHER, 0F CANTON, OHIO, *ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF ANDWILLIAM' aient hipine.

H. WILLIAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 102,800, daten Mag/IO, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAG-FASTENERS The Schedule referred to in these LettersPatent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY Flsnnn, ofUanton,Stark county, Ohio, have invented a new .and yimproved Tag-Fastening andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, a-nd exactdescription of my invention, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this specification, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, of which drawings- I4`igure l is avie\\"sho\ving an' application of my improved fastening.

Figures 2 are side and end views of my fastening.

Figure 3 is a cross-section of the same.

4Figures 4, are side and end views, showing the inanner in which thetag-cord fits in the faces of the fastenng.

Figure 5 is a view of a modified form ofthe fastening.

My invention relates to the construction of an improved fastening, bymeans of which the cords on cloth tags may be readily secured to thebales or pieces of cloth to which the merchant desires to attach thetag, for the purpose of showing the quality, price, number, or amount ofthe goods; and the peculiar advantages resulting from my improvedconstruction of fast-4 ening consist in the extreme cheapness with whichit can be manufactured, the facility with tags may be secured to goodsby its use, and the advantage of being able to conceal the tag in thegoods, so as to keep it out of sight from any persons except the merchant or his assistants.

To enable others skilledin the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and application.

`The fastening A consists of a piece o1 un, sheet-` iron, or othersuitable metal, which is cut out ina lozenge form, with pointed ends a,and has the hole b formed at or near its center, to admit the tagcord B.

The tag I) is of any desired form or material, and is secured to thefastening A hy the cord B, as shown in gs. 1 and 2.

In order to prevent the fastening from being bent in forcing it throughthe cloth, I form the rib c through the center of the fastening frompoint to point, as shown by end views in figs. 2, 3 and 4, either by-cutting the fastening from metal rolled with such rib, or by formingthe rib in the fastening by stamping or hammering after it is cutout, bywhich I obtain a stitening rib from one end ot' the fastening to theother, and prevent it from bending over at the points.

Thefastening neednot be pointed at both ends, but could he nia-dc of theform shown in fig. 5, fpreferred. v

To attach the tag to a piece of cloth, C, the tagcord B is laid up tothe sides of the fastening A, above and below the rib c, as shown infigs. 4, when the sharp point a of the fastening' can be readily forcedthrough the edge of the. cloth and the fastening can be drawn throughthe hole, and turned at rightangles to the tag-cord B, which will securethe tag to the cloth, as shown in tig. 1.

\Vhen the merchant desires to conceal the tag. D, he has only to push itin between the layers of cloth, when the tag, the cord, and thefastening will lie fiat between the layersof cloth, so as to beunnoticed by any person not knowing their location.

I am aware that sheet metal fastenings have been before shown, in whichthe fasteliiugs served as a crossbar, to hold the tag-cord in the clothto which the tag was to beattached hence I lay no claim to suchfastenings, except when provided with a stiiiening rib, formed bycorruga-t-ing the sheet metal composing the fastening from end to end,as before described.

cnam. In a sheet-metal tag-fastening, A, vprovided with one or morepointed ends a, and with the hole bat or near its center, the stiffeningrib c, formed in it from end vto end, as and for the purpose specitied.

As evidence of the foregoing, witness my hand this 2d day ofFehruary,'A. D. 1 870.-

HENRY FISHER. Witnessesz Jon ABBOTT, ANDREW OHoFFxN.

